Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
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Blog Post
...fluorescent proteins like GFP came to be used as research tools is particularly interesting. Although humans...light and glows green.
In the late 1980s, another researcher, Douglas Prasher, got the idea that this new ...of GFP, and began to realize its potential as a research tool. Soon, the number of people studying it grew...proteins with new colors
Around the same time, researcher Sergey Lukyanov realized that, although they ...